Category: Commodore News
emufreak is working on an Amiga emulator for the iPhone and the iPad. The emulated Amiga supports the OCS chip-set and 1 MByte RAM. The emulator must be installed via the alternative app-store Cydia. Changes in this version: Improvements for the controls and adaptations for iOS7. Website: https://github.com/emufreak/iAmiga
Best of MorphOS is a pdf news letter for MorphOS user in the English language. In this issue the following: Updates for MorphOS software, new games and reviews, emulators, meetings for MorphOS users and a world map of users and hardware. Download: BestOfMorphOS_03-04-2014_en.pdf
Edition 90 of Amiga Future is now online. In this edition: Interview: Cloanto. Reviews: SQRXZ-2, Fourmaze, Freespace 2, Memo, Bermuda Syndrome, Jungle Boy, PortablE, iBatch, RunInUAE, EvenMore, AmigaAMP, AAMP, and BetterWB. Hardware: Prelude and Memory expansion GB. Workshop: C-Workshop (7), Soldering Class (3), Deprecated, iBatch and AmigaOS 4.1 (1). Special: Amiga Timeline. Website: http://www.amigafuture.de
Alwyz released a new version of Strikterm. Striketerm is an improved version of the Novaterm 9.6c communications program. Changes in this version: REU detection on start-up. Support for Commodoreserver.com and IRC support. And it is now possible to select terminal mode options from inside the terminal. Website: http://1200baud.wordpress.com
David Brunet from the web page Obligement has had a interview with Szilárd Biró. Szilárd is an Amiga user from Hungary. His first computer was a PC but later he got himself an Amiga A500 with a 1084S monitor. Later he became more interested in AROS and started to make AROS version of PC games. Website: http://obligement.free.fr
SketchBlock is a drawing program for AmigaOS made by Andy Broad. The aim of this project is to create a sophisticated application for digital painting. Changes in this version: One important error was removed, a couple of small improvements and a new Julia set is available. Website: http://www.os4depot.net
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[youtube qk5wSM6sR4g nolink] GadgetUK164 made a video about the repair of an Amiga A500. The Amiga had multiple faults: Corrosion from coffee, damaged Fat Agnus socket, dirty disk drive, and faulty RAM. He also talks about the upgraded 8372A, and a switch for switching between 512KByte and 1MByte of Chip RAM. Website: https://www.youtube.com
Dopus5 is a Workbench clone for AmigaOS-based computer systems. The main feature of Dopus5 is the file manager functionality. The team behind Dopus5 has released a new version for AmigaOS4, MorphOS, AROS and the original AmigaOS3 platform. Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dopus5allamigas/
Paul Gardner-Stephen is working on an FPGA version of the Commodore C65. His goal is to make an 8-bit computer for the 21st century. The features of the C65 – FPGA will be: 1920×1200 @ 60Hz resolution, 256 colour palette from 4096 colours, 8 normal or enhanced sprites, faster CPU, 16MB RAM, multiple SID’s and more. Website: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au
